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A story in today’s Globe follows a couple of Boston code enforcement police around as they issue citations to folks who shovel/plow/blow snow into the already plowed street. The story mentions that unnamed “legal experts” say the city is liable for injuries that occur on sidewalks so it’s in the…
Read More »Here are a couple of videos of the recent December 26 Blizzard posted by citizen reporters in Chelmsford Posted by chamaineinma Dec 27th 2010, 2pm, day after the blizzard. Elm St trail leading to cranberry bog in Chelmsford MA. We went about 50 more feet before RUNNING back to the…
Read More »Here’s the link to the Facebook Page for the Beat Museum in San Francisco.
Read More »I picked up this item from the latest newsletter from the Beat Museum in San Francisco (www.kerouac.com). There’s a link to the Christie’s auction house site where you can see the letter from Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando, urging the actor to acquire the film rights to Kerouac’s then-redhot novel…
Read More »Maybe its me…but I got a kick out of this “music video” posted by a man sitting in his Dracut home alone while his wife is out shopping. Here is how the poster, raygoshay1400 describes the video: What’s a guy to do when his woman abandons him to go shopping?…
Read More »Lowell-linked poet Joseph Donahue and his poems are examined in a dense and cerebral essay-review by Jeanne Heuving in the Seattle-based literary magazine “Golden Handcuffs Review” (Winter-Spring 2008). Read Heuving’s take on Donahue here. Joe has new fiction in the current issue of the magazine (Summer-Fall 2010), but unfortunately his selection is…
Read More »The NYTimes continues its series on the Civil War with “The Road from Secession to Sumter.” Read the latest installment here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Earlier today the Librarian of Congress announced the 2010 additions to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Each year since 1989, twenty-five American films ranging from sixty-second clips to epic Hollywood productions have been inducted into the National Film Registry. This project caught my interest several years…
Read More »Lowell resident, historian, and sometimes contributor to this site Jim Peters, sent along this essay urging readers to get behind the effort to save the Textile Avenue Bridge (formerly known as the Moody Street Bridge and now known as the University Ave Bridge) from destruction: I have been spending a…
Read More »I really don’t know what to make of these two YouTube videos about Lowell posted by THEREALKING40…is the intent to be humorous, satirical, sincere or all these things…you decide.
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